Pulley.



PATENTED JUNE 18', .1907.

G. RICHARDS.

. PULLEY.

APPLIUATEION FILED MAY 1.1906.

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GEORGE RICHARDS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PULLEY.

Original application filed August 9, 1.905, Serial No. 273,499. Divided and this application filed May 1,1906. Serial No.

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Be it known that I, GEORGE RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pulleys, 4of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This a pblication is a division of an a plication file y me August 9, 1905, Serial No. 273,499.

The object of the invention is to provide such a construction of hub and separable bushing that the ulley may be placed on diameters and of diameters less than the hole through the hub of the pulley. The invention is particularly applicable to pulleys made in two parts or halves and especially to that type of pulley comprising two independent hub members, spaced apart and in alinement with each other on the liney of the pulley axis, each hub member being made in two parts or halves divided on a plane extending through the axis, and comprising also pairs of arms, the arms of each pair being secured at their inner ends to the two hub members respectively and at their outer ends bent in opposite directions parallel to the pulley axis and secured by rivets to the inner face of the rim.

The invention is more s eciiically designed for use in connection wit i a pulley which is required to be keyed to the shaft.

By my invention, provision is made for maintaining the hub members the required distance a art and for driving the keys without distur ing the fixed distance between the hubs, and the bushing provides a wall of metal of a sufficient thickness to contain the key groove, such thickness being greater than the maximum desirable or practicable thickness of the wall of the hub. Y

In the drawings. Figure 1 is a side view of' the pulley. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. '.Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4:-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side view of the bushing,

fu, u, are the two ub members, each being made in two arts or halves, and comprise special shape hollow castings having extensions on opposite sides forming recesses substantially rectangular in cross-section.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1907'.

c represents the arms of the pulley and a the pulley rim.

w, w are bolts, extending through the side extensions of the hub members, by which the two halves of each hub member are clamped together.

The bush b2 has a length substantially equal to the distance between the outer ends of the two hub sections and has a key-way extending substantially throughout its length, the bush being thus adapted to extend completely through both hub members. The `ush is preferably cast in one piece with longitudinally extending beveled grooves d made in its op osite sides and broken along this groove to orm two parts or halves forming, when put together, the joints y', y'. The key-way 7c is shown as formed at one of the joints j, although it may be formed in one only of the two parts or halves of the bush between the joints.

The projections p2, four in number for each hub member, extend into the square shaped recesses in the interior of the hub members. These projections lock the bush b2 in the hub members so that it cannot turn with relation to the hub, and the bushin and consequentlyT the pulley, are driven by t e key in the shaft. The projections p2 rest against the sides of recesses in the inner wall of the hub members and thus retain the hubs at the required distance apart. The clamp bolts fw, w, hold the pulley hub members and the bush together to resist the bursting strain of the key.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a hub comprising two hub members each having extensions on opposite sides forming interior rectangular recesses and each being split, through a plane intersecting said extensions, into two arts or halves, of a bush having two pairs o projections, at each of its ends, extending respectively into opposite hub recesses, and bolts, each extending through the hub extensions between the end walls thereof and said projections and securing together the parts or alves of each hub member, said bush spanning the space between the hub members.

2.` The combination with a hub comprising two hub members each having extensions on opposite sides forming interior rectangular recesses and each being split, through a plane IIC jections, at each of its ends, extending respectively into opposite hub recesses, and bolts, each extending through the hub extensions between the end walls thereof and said projections and securing together the parts or halves of each hub member, said bush spanning the space between the hub members, and having longitudinally extending grooves extending along opposite sides thereof between the projections of each pair, the bush being split longitudinally into two parts or halves intersecting said grooves.

3. The combination with a hub comprising two hub members each having extensions on opposite sides forming interior rectangular recesses and each being split, through a plane intersecting said extensions, into two parts or halves, of a bush having two pairs of projections, at each of its ends, extending respectively into opposite hub recesses, and, by contactin with the walls thereof, preventing the bush om turning relatively to the hub, and bolts, each extending through thel hub extensions between the end walls thereof and said projections and securing together the parts or halves of each hub member.

In testimony of which invention, I have hereunto set my hand, at London, on this 12 day of April, 1906.

GEORGE RICHARDS. 

